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Washington Regional Office
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Washington, NC 27889
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Water Quality
Regional Operations Section
Washington Regional Office
Subject: NOV Response
Town of Hookerton WWTP
NC0025712
NOV-2021-LM-0078
We are in receipt of your Notice of Violation dated September 9, 2021. The violation is for
Chlorine and Flow monitoring frequency violations and exceedance of the monthly average flow.
The WWTP was inaccessible for the period of February 13 — 25 due to the entry road being
flooded. Town staff did not feel they could safely drive through flood waters,_ The WWTP is in a _ _
floodplain and has always been subject to flooding, but it seems the flooding has been more
frequent since Hurricane Matthew.
The monthly average flow violation is also due to the high rainfall events that caused the flooding.
The flood waters backed up into the discharge line, causing the discharge line to surcharge which
would cause false high flow readings. At times, the flow was almost submerging the flows
transducer. The discharge line empties into a small holding pond prior to flowing into a discharge
pipe to the receiving stream. This small holding pond had filled with debris which would also
restrict discharge from the pipe and contribute to false high flows. Staff spend a day cleaning the
holding pond of debris.
P.O. Box 296 • Hookerton, NC 28538
(252) 747-3816 • FAX (252) 747-8131 • ahbaker@embargmail.com
www.hookertonnc.com
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We thank you for your consideration in this matter. If you have any questions or comments, please
call Tyler Shirley, Public Works Director, at: 252/531-3780.
Sincerely,
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Robert E. Taylor, Mayor
Town of Hookerton
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